A 24-year-old woman identified as Dyanti Dyah Ayu tragically became the casualty of a landslide on the southern perimeter road of Soekarno-Hatta Airport in Tangerang, which is believed to have been caused by the extreme weather that rocked the Greater Jakarta Area yesterday.
According to reports, the landslide occurred at around 6 pm yesterday and buried Dyanti’s Honda Brio just as she was driving through an underpass with a friend, Mutmainah, who was sitting in the passenger seat.
Based on photos of the location circulating online, it appeared that a retaining wall of the underpass collapsed allowing dirt to spill through and onto the road, though officials have not yet determined the cause for the landslide.
Both Dyanti and Mutmainah were employees at Garuda Maintenance Facilities (GMF) Aeroasia, which has an office at the Soekarno-Hatta.
Rescuers managed to evacuate Dyanti out of the car at around 3 am today, but unfortunately she passed away at Mayapada Hospital in Tangerang three hours later.
“The victim died at Mayapada Hospital. We are in grief, but this is God’s will. We can’t reject God’s will,” said GMF Aeroasia Finance Director Insan Nurcahyo, as quoted by CNN Indonesia today.
Mutmainah was rescued at 7 am — some 13 hours after she was trapped in the car by the landslide — and is reportedly recovering well at Siloam Hospital in Karawaci.
The underpass runs below the railway track for the newly-launched Railink airport train. Due to the landslide, Railink operations are halted for at least today until further notice.
Jakarta was under a flood alert last night after extreme rainfall caused several landslides in the satellite city of Bogor, reportedly killing at least three people with fears that the toll will rise as rescue efforts are ongoing. East Jakarta and South Jakarta have been the most affected, with at least 6,000 people displaced from their homes due to flooding.
